"Free" Images on the Web

There are piles of free clipart and photos available on the Web. The biggest problem is the time it can take to find what you want. The collections designed for teachers are the most useful but are fairly limited. If you or your students have any intention of publishing projects using these pictures be absolutely sure that they are royalty/copyright free! See Creative Commons for more information.

• Creative Commons Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. It gives copyright licenses to provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work.

• Pixabay This is a recommendation for a place to find and download quality public domain images. You can search on Pixabay by using keywords or you can simply browse through the library of images.
• Compfight Finds images fast. Can sort for creative commons.
• Every Stock Photo is a search engine for public domain and Creative Commons licensed pictures
• The Morgue File Photo collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. Features also a "classroom" where visitors can learn photography techniques and get tips about image editing
• Flickr Commons
• ImagesBing has an option for finding public domain images. To access this setting go to Bing Images, enter your search term, then use the "license" menu to select public domain images
• Google Images Select "tools" and "usage rights". Under "settings" you can select languages.
• CAPL Culturally Authentic Pictorial LexiconSomewhat limited, but you search by language. All images licensed under Creative Commons
• DHD Multimedia Gallery Original stock photography, clip-art, sounds and video clips. Mixed bag but with links to other sites.
• LESCANT(Language-Environment-Social Organization-Context-Authority-Non-verbal-Time) Sharing photos from around the world illustrating cultural differences
• Pinterest Good infographics for language teachers (Search "infográficos en español," "infographies en français")

Special Collections

• Images that Amazed the World:

  
  Examples: https://brightside.me/article/20-images-that-amazed-the-world-last-year-78905/
  Year in review (can be found in target language in multiple sites)
• What School Lunches Look Like in 20 Countries Around the World
• Peter Menzel: Hungry Planet: what people eat around the world
• Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
• What children eat at lunch, around the world
• What children eat for breakfast, around the world
• James Mollison: Where Children Sleep
  http://jamesmollison.com/books/where-children-sleep/
• How and where children learn: Classroom around the world (BBC)
• Classroom around the world (The Guardian)
• Children around the world (UNICEF)
• Movie: Schools around the world
  A great movie (3:30 minutes) of children and adult around the word in classroom
• What's Going On in this Picture? Images from the New York Times
• Newseum Look for the day's headlines from around the world
• The Realia Project Faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures.
• Reflections 10 Hermosas fotografías de personas mayores viendo a su joven reflejo en el espejo